Tides

by Cornwell, Betsy

• ISBN13: 9780547927725
• ISBN10: 054792772X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-06-04
• Publisher: Clarion Books

Summary

When Noah and Lo Gallagher move into their grandmother's ramshackle island cottage for the summer, they don't expect much in the way of adventure. Noah's internship at the local research aquarium is the first step toward his lifelong dream of becoming a marine biologist, and he plans on spending every minute working toward that dream. Lo hopes to find time to draw and paint, and escape the social and parental pressures of home. Noah soon learns that Lo's bulimia didn't stay behind on the mainland, and his frustration at feeling unable to help her makes the distance between them wider than ever. When he tries to rescue a girl named Mara from drowningonly to learn that she was just fine without his help, thank you very muchhis plans for a quiet, hard-working summer derail completely. Mara is a selkie. Her sister was taken years before by a human, and her elder does not want her to spend time on land. She has been warned her entire life that humans cannot be trusted. But she can't help but be charmed by the kind and harmless Noah, and when she finds out that her elder has had a decades long romance with a human, she lets him into her secret world of selkie shape-shifters and ancient magic. When the kidnapper strikes again, Mara can no longer trust her feelings or Noah. He and Lo must prove his innocence before they can join Mara in her fight to unravel the mystery of the kidnapper's identity and save her family.